Lake Tahoe Man Jumps Out Of His Skin When Mama Bear & Her Mischievous Cub Honk The Horn At Him

Typically, a car horn can be utilized to deter a wild animal that’s standing too close to the road. Rarely ever is the use of a vehicle’s horn utilized by wildlife and turned around on humans, but the word “rarely” does leave a small percentage of the unthinkable happening, does it not?

As Jim Carrey’s character Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber so famously said:

“So you’re telling me there’s a chance?”

When you are out in bear country, you have to be extra careful with things that you might otherwise be nonchalant about. If you aren’t used to locking your car, that could spell bad news when you’re coexisting with bears. One man in South Lake Tahoe, California learned that the hard way – and comically got scared senseless by the wild animals that broke into his car.

It’s estimated that 340,000 bears live in the United States, and in certain parts of the country, residents have to always be on alert and keep an eye out for bears. Black bears make up most of that total number (around 300,000), and one place where you are almost guaranteed to see them is in Lake Tahoe, California.

Most of the time, you’d prefer to have an encounter with a black bear from a distance. The farther away you stay from a wild bear, the better. But this particular mother bear -accompanied by her cub – appeared to be “smarter than the average bear” and brought the trouble to the man in Lake Tahoe. Much to the chagrin of the car’s owner, the pair of black bears broke into the California man’s vehicle and made themselves at home.

Bears tend to be pretty nosy creatures, and though they have been known to get violent when provoked (or if their cubs are messed with), they’re usually just a little mischievous. And sometimes that means getting into a little trouble, in most cases because they are searching for food. That’s normally the main cause for any bear interacting with humans, and likely what was happening in this video.

When the car owner noticed that something was up (there was a bear party in his vehicle and he wasn’t invited), he went out to try and scare the bears off. Little did he know… the wild animals were prepared to give him a scare as well, as the caption for the post explained:

“When a mama bear and her cub broke into a car in South Lake Tahoe, the owner tried to scare them off but ended up getting a fright of his own.”

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IMAGINE getting jump scared by a couple of bears that are tearing up your vehicle.

I didn’t want to get into too much detail before you were actually able to watch the video. The surprise factor is what makes that above clip so hilarious. It appears that the mama bear was checking out the back seat area (maybe asking “How many cubs can this thing hold?”) as the little cub was sitting in the driver’s seat.

When the mother started to make her way back to the front of the car, she smooshed (that’s the scientific word for it) her little one right into the car’s steering wheel, which unintentionally caused the horn to sound… and the California man to jump out of his skin.

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